The Absolute Value of Mike

170 Pages·2016·0.73 MB·English

by  Erskine Kathryn

Table of Contents

Dedication
Title Page
Copyright Page

Chapter 1 - PARALLEL LINES
Chapter 2 - TRANSVERSAL LINE
Chapter 3 - SKEW LINES
Chapter 4 - PLACE VALUE
Chapter 5 - COMPATIBLE NUMBERS
Chapter 6 - COMMON FACTOR
Chapter 7 - FORMULAS
Chapter 8 - EVALUATE
Chapter 9 - MIXED NUMBERS
Chapter 10 - REFLECTION
Chapter 11 - DEPENDENT EVENT
Chapter 12 - ORDER OF OPERATIONS
Chapter 13 - ADJACENT ANGLES
Chapter 14 - ZERO PROPERTY
Chapter 15 - DIFFERENCE
Chapter 16 - REGROUP
Chapter 17 - PROBLEM
Chapter 18 - SLIDE
Chapter 19 - OUTLIERS
Chapter 20 - CHAOS THEORY
Chapter 21 - ARGUMENT
Chapter 22 - FUNCTION
Chapter 23 - ATTRIBUTES
Chapter 24 - VARIABLE
Chapter 25 - UNFAVORABLE OUTCOMES
Chapter 26 - TRANSFORMATION
Chapter 27 - DEFECTIVE NUMBERS
Chapter 28 - INTERVAL
Chapter 29 - TESSELLATIONS
Chapter 30 - ENDPOINT
Chapter 31 - ABSOLUTE VALUE
To Gavin, whose strength of mind and spirit
has taught me much about the
absolute value of life

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Erskine, Kathryn. The absolute value of Mike / Kathryn Erskine. p. cm.
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Mike, whose father is a brilliant mathematician
but who has no math aptitude himself, spends the summer in rural Pennsylvania
with his elderly and eccentric relatives Moo and Poppy, helping the townspeople
raise money to adopt a Romanian orphan.
[1. Fathers and sons—Fiction. 2. Self-acceptance—Fiction. 3. Individuality—
Fiction. 4. Eccentrics and eccentricities—Fiction. 5. Business enterprises—
Fiction. 6. Pennsylvania—Fiction.] I. Title. PZ7.E7388Ab 2011
[Fic]—dc22 2010013333
eISBN : 978-1-10151607-2
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